Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza and patient crossings at Rafah halted, Palestinian officials say

Jeffrey Epstein took more photos of people he only hung out with once than I have of my best friends of 15 years

“Having the university here was a big part of the city’s feeling of youthfulness, and the idea that you can be here and learn and grow.” What happens when a city loses its university? (A question that will soon be answered in several other places across the UK, sadly…)

Or this? bsky.app/profile/spoo...

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

A very good read. As Iain knows I am less skeptical about higher education expansion but expansion at a fixed rate of £9k per annum as it turned out has absolutely worsened this problem (the US and Canada have high enrolment because they also have cheaper community colleges).

What did they think crypto was being used for? It’s like 85% crime.

what a horrifying story. And we cannot say we didn’t know…

We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines

www.theguardian.com/business/202... "..found female applicants were discriminated against by rigid, and sometimes automated, screening of their CVs, which did not take into account career gaps"

When Maga oligarchs control the platforms, it isn’t really a debate about ‘free speech’ | Rafael Behr

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Met police launch investigation into alleged Mandelson-Epstein email leaks www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

LITERALLY STORMFRONT WAS OPENLY INVOLVED FROM THE FIRST MONTH and people acted like I was being hyperbolic and nagged me not to “godwins law”

you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."

I am a runner. When I go uphill I move my right arm in a forward circular motion. I'm pretending to be a train. I'm also I'm my mind going choo-chooooooo.

Software engineer here. It was pretty obvious the volume of spam calls was going to go through the roof with AI being ubiquitous. So I always try some prompt injection when they call me. Proudest achievement was a 3 minute recital of the digits of pi.

My wife has just recycled several feet of unpopped bubble wrap. Starting to think I might have married a monster.

I was 29 when I learned that REM hadn't named themselves after Rare Earth Minerals, like our GCSE chemistry teacher told us.

The trust is not Reform’s only link to the Ghandehari family. Last year, she reported Reform UK received £200k in donations from a small design and architecture firm that had faced winding-up petition from HMRC.

A few people asking about fascinating story by @rowenamason.bsky.social (which others have followed up/ expanded on) so sharing here 👇 She & @guardianheather.bsky.social revealed that Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos was hosted and paid for by the $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire.

Interior Architecture Landscape - run by man called John Simpson - confirmed last week the Ghandehari family are its clients. Spox said decision to donate to Reform was made independently by company’s management, and not Ghandehari family itself. All details 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Less than two months after losing the May 2010 election, Peter Mandelson was close to securing a $1m a year role at Deutsche Bank (with $4-$10m bonus thrown in) for providing the bank with access to “governments, families and corporations.” He emailed Epstein about it, who replied “good first step”

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

It was the Fuck Around of Times, it was the Find Out of times

Elon Musk’s xAI is under investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog, as regulatory scrutiny ramps up of the way its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate and share sexualized imagery of people

It's a form of apartheid. One class of person fears to go out, shop, work, get medical treatment, take their kids to school, answer the door to deliveries.... the other doesn't.

🔴In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, reports @peterjukes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint

We really shouldn’t have to be spending our time and money to get Ofcom to be transparent about its dealings with platforms.

🛑 LATEST: Shock in UK News Studio After USA🇺🇸 Rant. 👇🏻 Please watch & share this report from #BrokenNews youtu.be/TWPOfVdmYig?...

Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September

Stop calling Epstein’s youngest victims underage – they were children

"Your AI engineers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should."

🇫🇷 Power move by the French cops by announcing on X that they are raiding X.

“It’s just weird to see a toddler in a pink onesie getting their eyes washed out from tear gas, you know?”

Important. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

It doesn't end well. The fascist government wants to prevail.

It's very easy to say that Epstein latched on to 4chan and ignited the far-right populism wave, but, at least according to the emails of his we have, he was much more interested in cashing in on any kind of political chaos he could. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

“They were careless people… - they smashed up things… then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” Yes Mandelson. But don’t ignore what Farage et al did (and still do) to help them.

Don't think I've ever felt as sick reading a newspaper story as I have looking at this morning's Epstein coverage. Just the open amorality of all the powerful people involved for so long.

UK diplomat Christian Turner has taken up his new role as British ambassador to the US. In 2024, he held a meeting with pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn that we discovered was focused on arms exports to Israel. www.declassifieduk.org/foreign-offi...

Home sweet and cold home. #MakerussiaPay

TikTok is censoring the words “Epstein” and “ICE” — and that alone should tell you how fast political censorship just arrived in America.

I don’t fancy the chances of Lime bikers either. Perhaps they can be the canaries in this coal mine.

The car doesn’t care. It can’t care. So what instructions does it have that override its lack of self-interest or compassion? This is also at the heart of problems with LLMs like ChatGPT, but with a car the danger is physical and immediate.

1/ A town in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan unveiled a war memorial last year for local men who died in the war in Ukraine. Only six months later, it has already nearly doubled in size, with nearly 48 times more war dead than in Afghanistan and Chechnya combined. ⬇️

Richard Moore: "I’m no longer sitting reading the intelligence, but my sense talking to people is that there is still absolutely zero sign that Putin is serious about negotiating. He obviously will play us along. He will try and spin things out." samf.substack.com/p/putin-is-n...

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...